RQ10064 Specialized IT Consultant Senior

Responsibilities:

The resource will be focused on:

• Lead the planning and development of comprehensive testing strategies and detailed test case creation.
  
• Document testing scenarios based on the ministrys specific application usage and business requirements.
  
• Oversee and manage all phases of testing including functional regression and performance testing.
  
• Execute testing activities in alignment with approved testing plans and timelines.
  
• Provide innovative and effective testing solutions that comply with Government of Ontario Information and Technology Standards (GO-ITS) industry best practices and the existing technological solution framework.
  
• Define and implement the overall Quality Assurance (QA) strategy for the branch to support future initiatives.
  
• Drive and lead efforts to migrate to the latest testing tools enabling full test automation across all test suites.
  
• The resources will also support CSC release and infrastructure solutions support sustainment activities urgent priorities changing needs or time-sensitive infrastructure upgrades or other sustainment activities supporting any CSC platforms overseen by the Cluster where annual work is required.
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Skill Set Requirements:

Core Skills:

• 10 years of experience in manual and automated testing and testing methodologies
  
• Demonstrated 5 years of experience in test lead experience defining and establishing common QA processes and tools to be leveraged across multiple teams
  
• Demonstrated experience in writing test scripts test cases and test scenarios testing web and analytics applications and reporting defects
  
• Extensive test experience involving IAM solutions including Microsoft Entra ID & Oracle IAM solutions
  
• Demonstrated experience leading a quality assurance team in support of multiple applications with separate high volume release cycles
  
• Demonstrated experience mentoring and managing junior staff
  
• Demonstrated experience liaising with project teams application operations teams and business clients in a matrix environment
  
• Demonstrated experience providing training and creating training materials
  
• Demonstrated experience coordinating separate and distinct testing cycles for multiple applications concurrently inclusive of resource allocation planning
  

Technical Skills:

• Strong technical skills and experience in leading QA experience with BI solutions (e.g. Microsoft Power BI or Cognos)
  
• Strong technical skills and experience in QA activites with SQL Databases XML
  
• Demonstrated experience in reviewing specifications for development of reports and other enhancements to systems that use Crystal Reports ( ( Oracle C# Entity Framework AngularJS and Bootstrap
  
• Demonstrated experience in testing reports and other enhancements to systems using Crystal Reports ( ( Oracle Cognos Power BI
  
• Demonstrated experience with Test Automation tools in particular Quick Test Pro v10.0 UFT 12.5 and HP Quality Center 12.5
  
• Demonstrated experience testing highly scalable multi-tier enterprise web applications utilizing the full Stack including: Web Forms MVC WCF WWF Microsoft Dynamics C# Entity Framework LINQ XML/XSLT
  
• Demonstrated experience testing systems using client-side libraries (Bootstrap Angular JS JQuery JavaScript) HTML5/CSS3
  
• Demonstrated experience working with relational databases (Oracle MS SQL Server etc.)
  
• Demonstrated experience leading AODA testing and regression testing efforts using a variety of accessibility software (for example JAWS Compliance Sheriff and web accessibility tool kit)
  

Communication Skills:

• Verbal communication skills to discuss client requirements; to lead discussion of testing options and processes among project teams
  
• Writing skills to prepare reports and presentations to explain analysis and recommendations
  
• Demonstrated analytical problem solving and decision-making capabilities
  
• Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership for systems testing and process improvement
  
• A team player with a track record for meeting strict deadlines
  

Public Sector Experience:

• Experience and understanding of public sector project delivery methodologies and standards would be an asset